WHEELER, Grattan Henry, a Representative from New York;
born near Providence, R.I., August 25, 1783;
attended public and preparatory schools;
moved to New York with his parents, who settled in Steuben County about 1800;
agriculturist and lumberman near Wheeler, N.Y.;
member of the State assembly in 1822, 1824, and 1826;
served in the State senate 1826-1830;
elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress;
resumed former pursuits;
presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840;
died in Wheeler, Steuben County, N.Y., March 11, 1852;
interment in a private cemetery on the Wheeler homestead.